Early Xmas in Louisiana - Dec 2018

At Honny's House

We went to Shawna's mom's house in Louisiana to celebrate an early Christmas.  Shawna was in Hartford that week so we both met up in New Orleans late on Thursday night.  We stayed over at the Best Western by the airport and woke up early on Friday morning to drive to Honny's.  That day, Keith worked from the house while Shawna and her mom went to Alexandria to get in some Christmas shopping.  That evening, we had gumbo and opened gifts.

On Saturday, we had planned on visiting Ginger and her family.  However, Ms Katie (Ginger's mom) was not doing well - she had stage 4 colon cancer and was not recovering well from her surgery.  And since Shawna was sick with a cold, we did not want to get their family sick so we decided to stay home instead.  It was a cold, rainy day so we stayed in and watched movies.  That evening, we had dinner at the Brown Bag which was delicious - we shared a pork tenderloin dish and shrimp and grits for an appetizer.

On Sunday, we relaxed at home in the morning, visited with Nicole for a short time and then had lunch before we drove to New Orleans to head back home.  Shawna ended up returning to Louisiana on Wednesday evening of the following week because sadly, Ms Katie had passed away.  She attended the funeral, burial and lunch on Thursday and then worked from her mom's house on Friday before flying back to Phoenix that evening.